Mini Collage Number Thirty-Nine

All You Can Eat Buffet
metallic marker, magazine cut outs, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Thirty-Eight

McCall's, April 1957
vinyl, magazine cutouts, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Everything here came from one page (117/118) from McCall's magazine, April 1957...mostly from a Spam ad.

Mini Collage Number Thirty-Seven

Clues
painted paper, found paper, vinyl, metallic marker, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Thirty-Six

Small Ideas
vinyl, French textbook page, painted newspaper, found
magazine images, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Thirty-Five

Remnants
painted and cut papers leftover from other projects, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Leftovers from this thing:

Playing around with sneezeweeds!

Mini Collage Number Thirty-Four

Drops No. 4
cut scrap paper, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Thirty-Three

Fluffo
found book and magazine images, painted found newpaper, matboard
4 x 5 inches

The idea of shortening makes me wanna gag, but it's a necessary evil for yummy pie crust.  My recipe only uses butter, flour, salt, and vodka--put it in a food processor and BAM! 

Hey, I'm on Instagram, are you?

Mini Collage Number Thirty-Two

It Was a Lovely Trip
reproduced map from a calendar, found photo, ink, vinyl,
matboard, painted book page
4 x 5 inches

Still feeling happy after my nice trip to San Francisco.  Saw cool things there and highly recommend a visit to anyone and everyone!

Mini Collage Number Thirty-One

Work It
found book and magazine images, metallic marker, matboard
4 x 5 inches

I ran out of minis to post while I was on vacation, so that's the reason I had a break there.  It's okay, I'm back!

Mini Collage Number Thirty

The Moving Apples
paper, vinyl, found book image, ink, matboard
4 x 5 inches

It's very hard for me to STOP.  (I think Tim Gunn calls it "editing.")  It feels like being lazy, or cheating, sometimes.  But it's not, and I need to get over myself.  Going crazy and 'all in' is good, and so is simplicity. 

The background here is from a photocopied image I made over a decade ago in school were the cover was not completely down and made this nice little pattern.  I was zoomed in on one of my wisdom teeth, which will work its way into something someday, I'm sure.

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Nine

Yellow Poppy Dots
vinyl, paper, matboard
4 x 5 inches

See what else is goin' on---> @eigtyacresart on Instagram!

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Eight

Pink Fire
cut vinyl, torn paper, fabric paper, painted paper, matboard
4 x 5 inches

I made a bunch of stickers once while sitting in my booth in Minnesota.  This is one of them.

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Seven

Looky Here!
painted matboard, cut paper from antique kids' books
4 x 5 inches

Mansplainin' in dapper clothes.

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Six

Take a Walk
painted paper, vinyl, punched and hand-cut paper
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Five

Latchkey Kid
found & painted book page, magazine cut out, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Have an awesome weekend!

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Four

Susan and Betty
1960's comic book, reproduced greeting card, ink,
book cut outs, colored pencil, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Three

Karz
magazine cut outs, vinyl, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Some people wouldn't consider most of these "cars" at all, really, since we have a truck, a station wagon, and a big ol' van.  Not sorry.

The black vinyl edge on the left is from the F that was originally on this little guy.

Mini Collage Number Twenty-Two

Pink Rain in Frankfurt
vinyl, cut paper, travel book page, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Don't forget, friends, Instagram is all the rage and I'm on the bandwagon!

Mini Collage Number Twenty-One

Johnny Appleseed
found papers, fabric paper, paint, vinyl, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Hey!!  Today I'm installing my new collages at One More Cup, a fabulous coffee shop in the Waldo neighborhood here in KCMO.  If you haven't already, check them out and see my new body of work debut in our fair city.  AND GET A MOCHA WHILE YOU'RE THERE--the best in town!